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THE OUBIT.

i.
IT was an hairy oubit, sae proud he crept alang;
A feckless hairy oubit, and merrily he sang—
'My minnie bad me bide at hame until I won my wings;
I shew her soon my soul's aboon the warks o' creeping things.'

ii.
This feckless hairy oubit cam' hirpling by the linn,
A swirl o' wind cam' doun the glen, and blew that oubit in:
O when he took the water, the saumon fry they rose,
And tigg'd him a' to pieces sma', by head and tail and toes.